March 15 (UPI) -- On March 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Deb Haaland as secretary of the Interior Department, making her the first Native American to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

On March 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Deb Haaland as secretary of the Interior Department, making her the first Native American to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

March 15 (UPI) -- Musician will.i.am turns 50 and actor Judd Hirsch turns 90, among the famous birthdays for March 15.

March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of federal government by passing a funding bill after approving a key procedural vote with the support of enough Democrats.

March 14 (UPI) -- NASA and SpaceX launched NASA's Crew-10 astronauts to the International Space Station on Friday night in a mission that will also aim to return Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

March 14 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Friday laid out his vision for the Department of Justice and the FBI, in a law-and-order talk that resembled a political speech.

March 14 (UPI) -- Will Smith announced a new album, "Based on a True Story," Friday. The album, featuring five previously released singles, will be released March 28.

March 14 (UPI) -- Sean "Diddy" Combs pleaded not guilty Friday in New York to a superseding indictment that charges him with forcing one of his employees into sex acts.

March 14 (UPI) -- The Virginia Zoo responded to rumors of an escaped gorilla in Norfolk by confirming that not only were all of its animals accounted for, but the zoo doesn't even have gorillas.

Powerful winds tore through the New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle on Friday, with gusts approaching 100 mph in some places.

March 14 (UPI) -- Jason Ritter is slated to join HBO's upcoming "Lanterns" series inspired by the "Green Lantern" DC comic.

March 14 (UPI) -- A California woman said she is going to buy her brother a new car after she gave him some money to buy her a lottery ticket and he came back with a $1 million winner.

March 14 (UPI) -- Adnan Syed on Friday was formally resentenced to five years probation after the judge ruled he shouldn't return to prison for a life sentence for the murder of his high school girlfriend found dead in Baltimore in 1999.

March 14 (UPI) -- The late singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull is set to have a posthumous EP release April 12.

March 14 (UPI) -- The Season 3 premiere of acclaimed series "Dark Winds" scored 2.2 million viewers, cable network AMC announced.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 14 (UPI) -- Normalizing ties with Lebanon has emerged as Israel's new emphasis after it greatly weakened Iran-backed Hezbollah during a devastating war.

March 14 (UPI) -- The United States Department of Education said Friday that has opened investigations into seven universities that are being accused of race-related improprieties.

People prone to nostalgia have an edge when it comes to their health and well-being, a new study says.

March 14 (UPI) -- British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will be the subject of a documentary arriving in the fall.

March 14 (UPI) -- The Kansas City Chiefs agreed to a one-year deal with veteran free-agent running back Kareem Hunt, a source familiar with the contract told UPI on Friday.